WPBifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links <= 1.0.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
Vulnerability Description
The WPBifröst – Instant Passwordless Temporary Login Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the ctl_create_link AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new administrative user accounts and subsequently log in as those.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:
- Jonas Benjamin Friedli
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50946bc7-8d31-4376-bdcc-de7aad700503?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/create-temporary-login/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3379010%40create-temporary-login&new=3379010%40create-temporary-login&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Affected Vendor
hakik
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